Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <[email protected]> writes: >> I noticed that you use darcs to track your debian/ dir only. In case >> you are not aware, you can use quilt or cdbs’s simple-patchsys to put >> your changes there too. > > I know about quilt and simple-patchsys. Do they integrate with darcs?
Note that quilt-style debian/patches is an officially sanctioned variant of the upcoming 3.0 source format, see the dpkg-source(5) manpage. For this reason I recommend it over simple-patchsys (though I have used both in the past). Though I'm the Darcs package maintainer, I just use quilt if I need to patch files outside of debian/. I do not bother to put more version control on top of that -- when I need to make a change, I just do a checkout with "apt-get source foo/unstable" and work on it locally until the next upload is ready. For history I rely on the "quilt header" command and debian/changelog. lintian -I will warn about quilt patches that do not have headers (descriptions). Of course, if you are collaborating with other maintainers on Debian integration for a package, then VCS (darcs or otherwise) for debian/, including debian/patches, might be useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
